Waking up by alarm early in the morning, I got fresh and had a call with mom. Looks like with less conversation throughout the week she was just anxious.

“Ah, it’s 9:00 AM already? I need to hurry”, classes start at 9:30 but still it takes time to walk. Even if I took a bus, it would at least take 15 minutes.

Locking the door, I headed for the university. Sprinting towards the bus stop to catch it.

“I’m seriously going to get scolded.”

Soon enough I reached university, thinking off all the even past week and here I’m still after all that.

A place where I can relax, explore and be myself. I was afraid of this not wanting to come back but here I’m still thinking about that.

“Alvin where were you?”, my childhood friend Alice Roose came from behind calling my name.

I turned around only to see her annoyed face.

“Oh, was working on something! Did something happen while I was gone?”, I asked.

“Something happened u say… Do you know how teachers and others are chewing me out? At least tell me before leaving.”

‘Well, it was expected’

“It’s alright I will deal with the teachers when they ask for me.”, I don’t think I care if they fail me or set me back a semester. There are a lot of things going on inside my head.

Either way, nobody will care even if I won’t attend university classes.

Like nothing happened, I entered my first class and sat in the last, I really don’t like to talk to others that much.

A few of my old friends do ask about my absence, “did something happen? You were out for a week.”

But in a long term, they will forget it.

Class is about to start, and the teacher walks in like always. While checking the attendance, today I was present which he was angry about.

Our teacher, Mr. Samson Jaric stands up from the desk and walks towards me.

While suppressing anger, he says, “Alvin you are a good student, but you can’t be absent for a week. Look at your friends, engineering isn’t an easy subject. Try to be more attentive.”

Not causing any problem I simply replied, “Sorry for the sudden absence, it won’t happen again, and I will inform teachers in case of any emergency.”

“Alright, glad you understood it.”

Class resumes and goes on like always but today I was thinking of multiple things instead of only the topic Mr. Samson was teaching.

One by one class changes I was thinking of ways to improve my grinding skills. I need to get more skills, but I don’t know how. Basic spells and sword skills can only get me so far.

Soon, I have to take part in a raid with others to Rank Up.

[12:30 | Monday]

Checking my phone, it was already lunchtime.

“Want to grab lunch at the cafeteria together?”, Alice came by asking for lunch together.

*SIGH

“Alright, but I’m not paying yours.”, looks like she has a few questions that I ignored today in the morning.

Eating together sitting opposite the tables, she says, “You look tired today. Is it related to what you were saying in the morning?”

While eating I also replied, “Y-yes. Just some personal project.”

She looked me in the eye and then went back to eating, as she says, “Alright.”

It is strange, friends come and went by, but she is the only one who stood with me after 15 years. She doesn’t ask questions a lot and is less annoying than those who act weirdly.

“Thanks, and sorry for the morning.”, I guess she is the only friend I have.